Classes with Mandy Shaw
Mandy has made things since she was a little girl – – from clothes and bedding for her dolls and teddy bears through to her first patchwork quilt in the early eighties. When Mandy started her family, she focussed on adorning her home and children with homemade crafts of all varieties. Mandy lives in East Sussex with her husband and four children.
The inspiration for Mandy’s quilts comes from a wide variety of sources, She loves old vintage children’s books, vintage china designs, and old fabrics. And she often gets ideas from details of old buildings… parquetry, tiles, drain covers, anything that has been embellished
Mandy’s work includes Redwork, Christmas projects, foundation piecing, applique, jewellery, embroidery, recycled bags, pincushions and more!
Mandy’s designs have appeared in numerous magazines including Country living, BBC Homes and Antiques, Today’s Quilter, Homespun, Inspirations, Fabrications, Popular Patchwork and Making…to name but a few. She teaches a wide range of classes in the UK and overseas. She appears regularly on TV and justhands-on.tv! And, she has written many patterns, published several books and creates kits for her inspirational designs.
According to Mandy, “I haven’t much time for sleep; I have too much sewing to do.”
Signature Technique:
Bringing distinctive whimsical design style to traditional techniques such as embellishing with buttons and rik rak.
Top Tips:
- Dressmakers carbon paper is great for transferring designs. If fabric is thick, then use iron-on transfer pencils
- 505 works a treat as basting spray on wadding for small quilts. Spray as lightly as you would for your hair.
- Use cotton abrazo thread for embroidery.
- Don’t use felt pens on silk!
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Meet Mandy Shaw
Jennie and Mandy enjoy the sunshine, chew over old times, and how Mandy has wandered off the straight and narrow. Also, traditional patchwork with accurate seams points to designing and teaching her patterns. You can notice that they often include many buttons and buttonhole stitch, ric-rac, and ...
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Ladder Stitch by Mandy Shaw
Ladder stitch is just one of those simple stitches you will wonder how you ever managed without it. It gives invisible closure to so many projects including Mandy’s lovely vintage pinkeepers.
Click here to learn more about Mandy Shaw.
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Make a Bag with Recycled Fabrics with Mandy Shaw
Recyle your fabrics
What a great idea and challenge. Use completely recycled products to make this really useful bag. It would seem that the only limitation is your imagination!
Another great Mandy Shaw design
Mandy and her students used up bits of tapestry, carpet, furnishing fabric, wool jumper... -
Quilts on the Farm - Revisited - an Exhibition Organised by Mandy Shaw
We hope that you find this revisit both enjoyable and inspirational. Mandy continues to inspire others both through workshops locally and now through appearances on Create & Craft. She is also the author of several books and patterns, and if you want to check these out, you can use the quick sear...
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Workshop Tour with Mandy Shaw
In this tour we discover a world of antique treasures as well as modern tools. Mandy uses 505 spray and Madeira wool threads. Also, she thinks that DMC cotton perle thread number 815 is the best colour for her redwork.
Stitch with Love, Stitch at Home and Simply Redwork are available on our websi... -
Christmas Advent Dollies with Mandy Shaw
Advent Calendars
As always, a fun time will be had in this workshop with Mandy, where she shows you how she makes her dollies ‘the American way.’
Three different dolls and angels, plus the lovely Ruby pajama case and Robin the Teddy Advent calendar
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Make a Button Bracelet with Mandy Shaw
Button Jewellery
Mandy loves collecting buttons, as well as using them to decorate quilts and other small projects. She enjoys making simple jewellery.
In this lovely workshop she shows how to make a simple bracelet with the 4-hole buttons and a little bit of thong thread – great for adults and c... -
Make a Vintage Pinkeeper with Mandy Shaw
In this lovely workshop from Mandy she shares with us a great idea for making little pin keepers and she has found a great use for the old, but beautiful embroidery that is often lurking in cupboards.
Easy to make and you get to learn about ladder stitch and blanket stitch – both stitches that Ma... -
Make a Cupcake Pincushion with Mandy Shaw
This pincushion is fun and easy to make. Mandy takes you through all the stages including using the ladder stitch to product invisible joins. She also likes to use recycled plastic pellets for the stabliser. Or, you could use cooked rice or lentils or indeed crushed walnut shells – they would al...
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How to Transfer your Redwork Design with Mandy Shaw
Mandy loves redwork. She loves using it on her quilts.
In this video, Mandy demonstrates how to transfer designs using dressmaker carbon paper and iron-on transfer pencils if the fabric is too thick.
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Festive Bunting with Mandy Shaw
Bunting for all occasions
Festive Bunting can be used anywhere in the house to decorate over doors, across mantlepieces, round the tops of curtains, across dressers and even the pets could get involved with their baskets!
also try using our quick link Bunting for other ideas.Click...
